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"I don't know your age, of course, but if it will reassure you any, I'd put it at twenty-eight. And that, according to Peter Ibbertson, is quite the nicest age." Her face, with its unyouthful capacity for sudden seriousness, grew grave. Her deep blue eyes gazed past him out of the window.
Ibbertson will be benefactor to the Union, if he become the means of spreading the admirable method by which he had polished the manner, and awakened the intellect of these beautiful little Republicans.
So good in you to bother about her when" Aunt Paula gave the effect of faltering, but her smile was peculiarly gracious "when there were no other men nearer her own age." Curiously, there floated into Blake's mind the remark which Annette made that first day on the train "I should think you were about twenty-eight and that, according to 'Peter Ibbertson, is about the nicest age."
Another slave in the house told us, that she "liked religion right well, but that she never took fits in it, 'cause she was always fixed in her best, when she went to chapel, and she did not like to have all her best clothes broke up." We visited the infant school, instituted in this city by Mr. Ibbertson, an amiable and intelligent Englishman.
But every time that he approached a closer intimacy, she veered away with an adroitness which was consummate art or consummate innocence. His first impression grew that she "did" something. She had mentioned "Peter Ibbertson." He spoke, then, of books. She had read much, especially fiction; but she treated books as one who does not write. He talked art.
Ibbertson, who seems perfectly devoted, heart and head to the subject, told me that he was employed in organizing successive schools that should receive the pupils as they advanced in age. If he prove himself as capable of completing education, as he appears to be of beginning it, his institution will be a very valuable one.
Ibbertson gave tune and time to the prettiest little concert of chirping birds that I ever listened to.
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